 National Wildlife Refuge is a designation for certain protected areas of the United States managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Refuge system is a network of lands and waters managed to protect wildlife and wildlife habitat. The system consists of over 500 refuges across the nation. Nearly all of them have the words "National Wildlife Refuge" in their names; exceptions include: This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
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The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. ...
The USFWS logo The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that is dedicated to managing and preserving wildlife. ...
Sullys Hill National Game Preserve is a National Wildlife Refuge located on the shore of Devils Lake in Benson County, North Dakota, within the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. ...
Map showing the Desert National Wildlife Reserve and other federal properties in southern Nevada The Desert National Wildlife Range is a protected wildlife refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, located north of Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
The National Elk Refuge, which was created in 1912 to promote the survival of the elk herd, lies northeast of the Town of Jackson, Wyoming. ...
History
The National Wildlife Refuge System was established by the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, "for the purpose of consolidating the authorities relating to the various categories of areas that are administered by the Secretary for the conservation of fish and wildlife, including species that are threatened with extinction, all lands, waters, and interests therein administered by the Secretary as wildlife refuges, areas for the protection and conservation of fish and wildlife that are threatened with extinction, wildlife ranges, game ranges, wildlife management areas, or waterfowl production areas." [1] Established the National Wildlife Refuge System. ...
The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 builds upon and amends this initial legislation.
See also This is a list of some 300 of the National Wildlife Refuges in the United States. ...
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